Monkcheri Amour (2A-6M-12F) - Please critique this take on the monkster build

[savingsoul]

I found the following mention of a 12F monkcher in the forums.

Anyways about your build...why ranger? if its for extra feats just add more fighter levels so it's 12Fighter/7Monk/1Wiz giving you stalwart2

This came up within the context of different concept: an 7M/7F/6Ranger ranged AC tank. I know I've read from this thread before, as wax_on himself suggests a 12 Fighter monkcher build in the OP of his monkcher thread, and links to it from there. http://forums.ddo.com/showthread.php?t=351118 Monkcheri is focused on ranged DPS, so naturally I went Kensei II. However, it just goes to show that these ideas were certainly in the air. Also, it suggests an interesting possible AC tank variation on Monkcheri Amour.

[kanbeki]

Hello, I am doing a stalwart defender variant of this build, i have 3x ranger lives and just hit 13, I enjoy it I also opted for ninja spy for the incorporeal miss chance, the only thing my build will lack is GWS:Ranged which I simply have no room for, It's a shame as I liked the idea of being able to swap between kensai/SD but it seems like if you go the SD route there is no way to make it an AP switch away from kensai

[savingsoul]

Monkcheri Amour can now get a little boost in damage by taking one level of druid for ram's might rather than one level of artificer. You must then take mental toughness instead of quickdraw or ic: bludgeoning.

Also, I have confirmed that if you have the Arcane Prodigy past life feat, you can quality for elven arcane archer w/o mental toughness or an arcane casting class. This means that if you have a past life of sorcerer, then you may wish to tweak Monkcheri Amour to 2Ranger/6Monk/12Fighter for some extra feats, but in terms of sheer damage you may still want to go 1Druid/7Monk/12Fighter for ram's might.

I'll get around to posting these two variations of Monkcheri eventually.

-Soul